14 DAY TRIAL // Love is tough. It's even tougher if one is not all that good looking, and the toughest when one happens to belong to a species believed to no longer be alive and kicking in the wild.
The fish pictured above is a male belonging to a species referred to by the scientific community as Mangarahara cichlid (or Ptychochromis Insolitus, if you prefer).
Together with one other similarly appealing buddy, it lives at the ZSL London Zoo’s Aquarium.
The staff working at this facility are now desperately trying to find a female belonging to this species, and introduce it to these two males, Mongabay informs us.
Should they succeed in implementing one such captivity breeding program, the Mangarahara cichlid might have a chance of escaping extinction.
“It might be too late for their wild counterparts, but if we can find a female, it’s not too late for the species. Here at ZSL London Zoo we have two healthy males, as well as the facilities and expertise to make a real difference,” reads a statement issued by the ZSL London Zoo’s Aquarium.
Here's hoping these two males will soon find their sweetheart.